Musica Cathedralis

Musica Cathedralis, Chartres XIIIe siècle
Faire chanter les pierres de la Cathédrale de Chartres ... - Let the stones of Chartres sing out ...
La Maurache - Ensemble Fulbert de Chartres - La Maîtrise du Conservatoire de Chartres
Arion ARN 268428 (2 CDs)

Contents:

    CD-1

    Première partie: Quand les instruments de pierre retrouvent leur âme et résonnent à nouveau sous les doigts du musicien ...
    First part: When instruments of stone find their souls once more and resound again beneath the musicuians' fingers ...

    Anon., 12th c., Scandinavia:
  1. Conductus in gymel: Hymne à Saint Magnus (children's choir, men's choir, soprano, mezzo-soprano, psaltery, portative organ, fiddles, harp, percussion, tintinnabulum)

    2. Jehan Erars, Trouvère:
  2. Pastourelle: Dehors Loncpré le Bosquel (fiddle, nakers, dombak)

    3. Guillaume de Ferrières, dit le Vidame de Chartres:
  3. Chanson courtoise: Tant ai d'Amors (harp)

    4. Queen Blanche de Castille (attr.):
  4. Marian song: Amours ou trop tard me suis pris (fiddle)

    5. Fulbert de Chartres:
  5. Improvisation on: Magnificat Antiphons from Vespers for the Office of Saint Gilles (organ)

    6. Anon., 13th c.:
  6. Virelai, lamentations of the Virgin Mary at the foot of the Cross: Agneau Doux (psaltery)

    7. Anon., MS Las Huelgas:
  7. Motet on the tenor "Omnes": O Plangant nostri prelati (harp, psaltery)

    8. Anon., 13th c.:
  8. Conductus: Domino (psaltery, fiddles, organ, harp, percussion)
    Motet: Pucelette (childen's choir, men's choir, tintinnabulum, quitra, shawm)

    9. Deuxième partie: Quand les instruments se mêlent à la voix pour chanter la Dame du Ciel, la Croisade, la Dame terrestre
    Second part: When the instruments come together with the voices to sing the praises of the Lady of Heaven, the Crusade, and the earthly lady.

    Pierre Mauclerc de Dreux: Li cuens de Bretagne
  9. Chanson courtoise: Novelement m'est pris envie (mezzo-soprano, psaltery, organ, rebec, recorder, harp, tintinnabulum, fiddle)

    10. Saint Louis (attr.):
  10. Marian song after L'Aurier matin: Estampie (fiddles, psaltery, organ, recorder, harp, dombak, nakers)

    11. Guy de Thourotte, dit le Chastelain de Coucy:
  11. Crusader's song: Li nouveau temps (soprano, harp, psaltery, crwth)

    12. Anon., 13th c.:
  12. Conductus in the form of an estampie in canon: Ductia (2 fiddles, recorder, doïré, nakers)

    13. Thibaut, Count of Champagne and King of Navarre:
  13. Crusader's song: Dame ensinc est qu'il m'en convient aller (3 tenors, psaltery, fiddles, organ, shawm, harp, riqq, darbukka)

    14. Anon, Llibre Vermell de Montserrat:
  14. Mariam Matrem (soprano, mezzo-soprano, children's choir, fiddle, rebec, psalery, recorder, tintinnabulum)

    15. Anon., MS Las Huelgas & Montpellier:
  15. Ex illustri nata prosapia (children's choir, psaltery, fiddles, organ, recorder, harp, doïré)

    CD-2

    Deuxième partie (end)

    Anon., Llibre Vermell de Montserrat:
  1. Los Set Goyts (soprano, children's choir, men's choir, fiddles, recorder, harp, shawm, quitra, organ, daf, nakers)

    2. Troisième partie: Quand toutes les voix et tous les instruments se chantent à la plus grande gloire de Dieu et à celle de Notre Dame
    Third part: When all the voices and all the instruments come together to sing to the greatest glory of God and Our Lady.

    Anon., 5th/13th c.:
  2. Hymn: Aurora lucis rutilat (men's choir, instruments)

    3. Anon., MS Las Huelgas & Carmina Burana:
  3. Bonum est confidere (soprano, mezzo-soprano, fiddle, men's choir, instruments)

    4. Anon., 14th c.:
  4. Chatrtran Hymn for the Feast of the Glorious Cross: Salve Crux Sancta (men's choir)

    5. Anon., MS Montpellier:
  5. Motet: Veni Virgo Beatissima (children's choir, instruments)

    6. Anon., Llibre Vermell de Montserrat
  6. Antiphonia dulcis armonia dulcissime Verginis Mariae de Monte Serrato. Caccia (canon): O Virgo Splendens (fiddles, quitra, organ, recorder, tintinnabulum, men's choir, instruments)

    7. Fulbert de Chartres (attr.):
  7. Sequence in honor of Music: Aurea Personet lyra (bass, tenor, men's choir, instruments)

    8. Anon., School of Notre Dame, Paris:
  8. Pious Rondeau: De Patre Principio (men's choir)
    Pious Rondeau: Doux Jhesus pour vostre amour (soprano, mezzo-soprano, instruments)
    Pious Rondeau: En Égypte m'en veuil aller (men's choir, instruments)

    9. Anon., MS Montpellier:
  9. Motet: Alle psallite cum Luya (instruments, soprano, mezzo-soprano, bass, tenor, tutti)

    10. Anon., 12th c., Scandinavia:
  10. Conductus in gymel: Hymne à Saint Magnus (children's choir, men's choir, soprano, mezzo-soprano, psaltery, portative organ, fiddles, harp, percussion, tintinnabulum)

Playing time: 51' 48" + 42' 07"= 93' 55"

Performers:
La Maurache [Anne Carole Denès (mezzo-soprano, low-pitched fiddle), Laurence Orlowski (soprano, tintinnabulum), Claudine Prunel (small portative organ, positive organ), Kleber Besson (psaltery, quitra), Julien Skowron (tenor, pear-shaped fiddle, Memling, rebec, crwth), Xavier Terrasa (shawm & tenor, medieval recorders] and invited guest [Sérine Besson-Levy (gothic harp, harp with brass wire strings), Laurence Martinaud-Vialle (figure-of-eight shaped fiddle, fiddle after Memling), Arnaud Carron de la Carrière (tintinnabulum, drum from southern India, doïré, daf, dombak (zarb), Egyptian riqq), Maxime Fiorani (tintinnabulum, nakers, derbukka)]
Ensemble Fulbert de Chartres [Thierry Collin (tenor), Nicolas Lhoste (tenor), Thibaud Mounier (tenor), Emmanuel Rousseau (tenor), Olivier Bardot (baritone), Jean-Cyrille Frichot (baritone), Amaury Grimbert (baritine), Christophe Basse (bass), Vincent Bergeot (bass), Patrick Boisseau (bass)] - Pierrick Boisseau, Choirmaster.
La Maîtrise du Conservatoire de Chartres [Astrid Arbouch, Marc-Henri Avot, Céline Boulben, Camille Bourrouillou, Fréric Chartrain, Estelle Hau, Simon Huet, Samir Kaddari, Adrien Lehaitre, Caroline Mahot, Hélène Morstyn, Paul Pruneau, Léonor Séantier, Louis Seguin, Benjamin Souriau, Naïké Thomas, Brunhild Tranchant, Inès Triboulet, David Verslyppe] - Philppe Frémont, Choirmaster

Recording site and date:
Crypt, Cathedral of Chartres [01/1998]

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 451-142 (september 1998)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):

Comments:
Information from owned CD.

Pierre-F. Roberge

This recital takes its motivation from the instruments depicted in the stones of Chartres, and challenges the idea that instruments were not used in liturgical music of the period. Although it is grounded in contemporary documentation & iconography in this way, the actual instruments used are more freely chosen.

The primary ensemble here is La Maurache, as directed by Julien Skowron, who also prepared the program. Other recordings by that ensemble:

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Arion 68344
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Chansons et danses au temps des Cathédrales
La Fête sur le Parvis Nostre-Dame
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Arion 68181
Noël en tous temps, en tous lieux
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Arion 68130
La Danse à la Cour des Ducs de Bourgogne
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Arion 68052
François Villon et la musique
Le Paris de François Villon: Ballades au XVe siècle
La Maurache - Julien Skowron
Muza 2005
Guillaume de Machaut et l'Ars Nova
Catherine Schroeder / La Maurache
Muza 2004
Fulbert
Millénaire, Chartres (1006-2006)
La Maurache / Ensemble Fulbert de Chartres
Muza 2006 F
Thibaut de Champagne
Le Roi Trouvère
La Maurache - Julien Skowron / L'Ensemble Fulbert de Chartres
Muza 2006 C

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